Insurgent

Insurgent is the second book in Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy.  If you have not read the first book, Divergent, then stop right here because this will contain spoilers, there is no way around it when reviewing this book.

Divergent was such an amazing book that Insurgent had a lot to live up to, and praise be to the literary gods that it did not disappoint in the least.  This book was every bit as good, if not better, than Divergent.

The book starts as Tris, Four/Tobias, Peter, Marcus and Caleb arrive to Amity's farms. Tris is having to cope with a lot, the death of the parents and having to kill her friend Will for one.  They meet with Amity to try and figure out where to go from what has happened.  Amity as a whole decides to stay neutral but to allow their farm to become a safe house from everyone fleeing the city.

While at the farm, Tris follows Marcus (Tobias' jerk of a father) and discovers that he knows more about why the attack on Abnegation happened than he is letting on.  When Tris tries to tell Tobias this, you can really tell that he is still having serious daddy issues.

Tris and Tobias realize pretty quickly that they will not be able to stay on the farm, especially after Tris' fight with Peter.  It comes time to leave a little sooner than they planned when an Erudite and traitor Dauntless show up at the farm looking for them.  Tris ends up saving Peter's life, which will be a blessing to her later.  Tris and Tobias escape the farm and hop a train where they find it filled with factionless, lead by Edward. To keep them safe Tobias tells them his full name, which brings quite the reaction.  They meet with the factionless leader who propose an offer to Tobias.

Tris and Tobias decide to go to Candor's headquaters, where the non traitor Dauntless have gathered. Both are given the truth serum and made to tell about their role in the slaughter of Abnegation.  Tris admits that her biggest regret is that she killed Will, which drives a wedge between her and Tobias that is there for most of the book.  At this point the books really starts putting together the piece of why Erudite did what they did in Divergent.

Tris becomes an increasing complex character in this book.  She feels very human and you go with her through her stages of grief and her struggle with her feelings for Tobias and what is the right thing to do.  I think I love her even more for all that she has endured.  I have to say there where many times I felt the need to slap Tobias in this book.  He keeps harping on Tris to be completely open and honest with him, but seems to have a double standard when it comes to himself.  He tells her that he trust, but many times he puts her judgement of people or situations aside because of his own prejudices.

Oh, and OMG the big reveal in the last few pages of the book!  I hardly wait for the next book to be out, which is suppose to be in late October.

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